By Sir Ronald Sanders January 14, 2022 By 2030, it is more than likely that the eight independent Commonwealth countries which are still monarchical states, with Queen Elizabeth II as…
Category: OPINIONS
COMMENTARY: Governments must act urgently to end embarrassing UWI spectacle
By: Sir Ronald Sanders January 7, 2022 No individuals are greater or more valuable than Institutions. The University of the West Indies (The UWI) is the longest thriving and most…
COMMENTARY: Desmond Tutu: A Life of Servanthood Leadership
By: Wayne Campbell January 7, 2022 “I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the…
COMMENTARY: Reform the OAS or oversee its irrelevance
By: Sir Ronald Sanders December 17, 2021 Our world exists today in troubled circumstances, governed by outmoded charters and laws that are no longer fit for purpose and do not…
COMMENTARY: ‘Drowning in promises’ after COP26
By: David Jessop December 14, 2021 In a powerful speech at last month’s COP26 climate summit, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley seized the day. In just eight minutes, she captured…
COMMENTARY: Democracy Summit missed an essential ingredient
By Sir Ronald Sanders December 10, 2021 US President Joe Biden declared at the opening of a “Summit on Democracy”, which he convened on December 9, that “democracy needs champions”. …
COMMENTARY: Wake up and smell the Chow Mein
By Sir Ronald Sanders December 3, 2021 A television interviewer asked me if I thought Caribbean countries, and other developing territories, would benefit from the ‘war for influence’ that the…
COMMENTARY: New trade partnership with UK set to increase jobs and opportunity both sides of Atlantic
By: Deodat Maharaj November 30, 2021 Arguably, we have never seen a stronger case made for global leaders to invest in our Region’s future survival than that put forward by…
COMMENTARY: Barbados’ Republican status is not a yen for pieces of silver
By Sir Ronald Sanders November 26, 2021 Among the most nonsensical statements uttered by a British Parliamentarian and repeated in the British newspaper, The Sunday Times, is that Barbados will…
COMMENTARY: An innovative private sector: A prerequisite for Caribbean green economy transition
By: Deodat Maharaj November 23, 2021 The Caribbean has been at the forefront of the ongoing COP26 climate change negotiations taking place in Glasgow, Scotland. We have seen representation at…
COMMENTARY: Men’s Issues are real
By: Wayne Campbell November 23, 2021 “Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down, it keeps us from…
COMMENTARY: MEET NYC DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL MISS KERRY POWERS AT THE MANHATTAN SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN PS 333.
By: Helen Grenade November 23, 2021 The past has been written, the present designed, and the future is devised around Kerry Powers, Assistant Principal of the Manhattan School for Children,…